Sentences with phrase «of blurb»

In 2009 she was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize for Photography, and her book Some Fox Trails in Virginia won first runner up in the fine art category of the Blurb Photography Book Now International Competition.

Take a read of the blurb from EA.

I know this is slightly off topic but the major thing that has bothered me about ebooks is the lack of blurb.

You don't know right now today how many readers you're losing because of your blurb.

Because of that blurb, everything changed for me.

Because of his successful track record, the first line of his blurb is able to use social validation to hook readers in.

Note this is not what goes into the book, but the version of the blurb that goes on B&N's website: the stuff visible when you visit https://barnesandnoble.com/w/1122123095 (for example).

Eileen Gittins, founder and CEO of Blurb, said: «Today's additions remove yet more barriers to self - publishing a professional book.

Similarly, if the browser makes it to the product page, they're likely to read (in this order) first paragraph of the blurb, possibly rest of blurb, review rating, and possibly top helpful / critical review.

«It used to be an elite few,» said Eileen Gittins, chief executive of Blurb, a print - on - demand company whose revenue has grown to $ 30 million, from $ 1 million, in just two years and which published more than 300,000 titles last year.

Sticking with Mark Dawson's book descriptions as an example, here is part of a blurb from another one of his thrillers:

Writing.ie have been particularly impressed with the cover quality of Blurb's books, some of which really do leave Amazon CreateSpace's covers in the shade.

It doesn't matter how clever the rest of the blurb is, the first sentence has to hook them into clicking «more»

This development, as Tom says, will be of particular interest to children's book authors, food writers — see the example (right) of a a Blurb cook book with a video how - to addition — or other how - to type guides where design and presentation are critical.

Tip: If you write fiction where this is common, try putting the first few words of your blurb in CAPS, too.

This advice also applies to online book descriptions, by the way (the online equivalent of a blurb.)

Hi Angela, not heard of blurb, I will have to take a look, yes we do tend to try and make it as difficult as possible for ourselves!

If you write a draft of your blurb, get an objective party who has at least a basic understanding of marketing.

You should also include an enticing paragraph of blurb «selling» your book, a bit about yourself and any writing credits you have (such as published short stories), and something on your «platform» — i.e. your existing (online) audience, if you have one.

Think of your blurb as the map of your book.

Also, look at the formatting of the blurb.

(In traditional publishing, trained people do this, people who know what kind of blurb will sell a book, and it is vetted and worked over by the sales force.)

The writer of this blurb?

You have full control over the process, including the level of editorial input you receive, the design of your book cover and the writing of the blurb.

And WMG has a six week workshop on all the different structures of blurb writing.

Send it to people who you trust to give an honest opinion on the quality of the blurb.

A slow start, but good use of language, beautifully written, characters to love and hate and what seemed like a good story until the rather grim ending, which made a complete lie of the blurb on the back: «Briony will have witnessed mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone».

The job of the blurb is to get the reader interested in wanting to know more and buy the book.

But the key goal of the blurb is for the potential reader to look inside the book.

The other thing we can do to improve the effectiveness of our blurb is to use https://ablurb.github.io/ through this site we can preview what our blurb will look like when we apply simple HTML tags like Bold or Italics.

Refine the heck out of your blurb using the results, and keep revisiting it until you love what you've written.

Then hand them a postcard with part of your blurb on it (or your book so they can read the blurb on the back).

I purchase it based on overall rating and strength of the blurb.

So, I wrote an initial draft of the blurb and then hired a blurb writer to polish it into something really hook - y.

When it comes to payment, this is done outside of Blurb and its up to the talent to determine how they want to be paid, Blurb abstains from the entire payment process.

I picked this book up because of the blurb from Jonathan Evison on its cover: «A brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history and humor.»

This book publicist can't see a downside of Blurb, and she can't see any limitations on what the future holds for the publishing industry, either.

Didn't Chronicle look at the quality of the Blurb experience from every angle before making this partnership announcement?

I haven't read the other comments, but I primarily tend to look at cover art, the strength of the blurb, and user reviews.

Heck, after the sort of blurb that came attached to the road legal version of the Ford Mustang Boss 302, you'd expect the S to have an even longer press release.

I don't want retype a lot of critics» raves, but you can find a scan of the blurb page after the cut.

efilmcritic Erik Childress's wonderful annual list of Blurb Whores of the Year THR August Osage County wins big at the Capri festival in Italy, winning four prizes.

Still, consider the plea of this penny stock of a blurb: this is Scorsese's greatest in nearly twenty - five years, from Leonardo DiCaprio's career - best work to the masterful way the pitch - black satire both entertains us and makes us hurt.

I'd say that the «sheer» part of that blurb applies more to the application than the colour as these tones are quite pigment dance and go on BOLD!

Let's face it, most of the time, the research they read is really comprised of some blurb they've ready in their favorite health and fitness magazine or maybe a recent news story.

I see a fragment of a blurb that says Ron or Rod or Tom or Todd, last name Chud - something, was either hired or fired by Indianapolis.

This effectively reduces your energy intake, leading to kicking some of the blurb to the curb.

If you include a series of blurbs or article summaries, the attention of your recipients will most likely be spread across these tidbits of information as opposed to staying focused on a certain element.

Other sites sounded almost as if they were working for the online dating services: every review was full of blurbs on how «such - and - such a dating service would change your life forever and ever!!!».

There are no reviews whatsoever on Michelle or Patricia (just a couple of blurbs from blogs).